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Definition of stocking mask in English:

stocking mask

noun

A nylon stocking pulled over the face to disguise the features, used by criminals.

‘An alleged robber on trial 11 years after a terrifying raid because dandruff was found on a stocking mask yesterday told a jury he might have used the fabric to mop his brow.’

‘Also in his car, police found a rifle, numerous rounds of ammunition, a black hood and a black stocking mask.’

‘The man is white, between 25 to 30 years old with short hair and a receding front hairline, between 5ft 10 in to 6ft tall, clean shaven and sometimes wears a stocking mask or balaclava.’

‘A man wearing a stocking mask struck between 8.30 am and 8.45 am on Wednesday as the woman was taking out her rubbish to a wheelie bin outside her home in Gainsborough Road.’

‘We found a witness that we never saw in trial for other reasons that saw him with this stocking mask, the same one that was found at the crime scene, six months before.’

‘Vividly, he compared them to the stocking masks worn by bandits.’

‘Dandruff landed a man with a 15-year sentence for a terrifying armed robbery yesterday - 11 years after he donned a stocking mask and snatched a payroll.’

‘A pair of identical teenage twins and an older man donned stocking masks, armed themselves with an axe and a chair-leg and stormed into a shop demanding money and cigarettes, the Isleworth Crown Court heard this week.’

‘An officer pulled up the dead man's stocking mask.’

‘But what the audience were actually looking at was a boy in a monkey suit and stocking mask.’

‘So, when he moseyed up wearing a stocking mask over his face and a pistol in hand, the employees simply didn't buzz him in.’

‘And one of them, we are told, had a stocking mask on, so even if he did go to the door, maybe nobody recognized this guy.’